In Freakonomics, authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner turn a spotlight on to some touchy areas - abortion, crack dealers, parenting, the KKK, cheating by school teachers, guns in homes. They present a view that if you remove the...
...If you like rolicking, picaresque novels, you will love Handling Sin. Written in the '80s(?), it remains one of my favorites. A mild mannered insurance agent is sedately approaching middle age, living out his comfortable life in a small...
...Iain Pear's The Dream of Scipio follows the lives of 3 men, all men who are deeply thoughtful and philosophical, all who must face terrible decisions which try their deepest beliefs, and all men who lived in France's Provence...
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